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  1. Re:It's already happened once. on Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) · · Score: 1

    With botox the face still ages, the muscles are simply stuck in an "activated" state. It's like hard-wiring the inputs of your face muslces 24/7 to cause them to "stretch out" the muscles.

    It's possible that's what they were referring to in the article, but it seems to be implied that it hasn't aged at all (somehow killing and preserving the tissue?). Now that I read it again, you may be right though.

  2. Re:It's already happened once. on Don't Cross the LHC Stream! (Maybe) · · Score: 1

    The dividing line of his life goes down the middle of his face: the right side has aged, while the left froze 19 years ago. When he concentrates, he wrinkles only half his forehead.

    Can't believe some "skin-care" company hasn't tried marketing this as an anti-aging solution

  3. Re:Compete on Linux and OS X too please on Microsoft Says IE9 Beta Demand Overwhelming · · Score: 1

    Hey, if you're going to sell 0 units of a product, it may as well be a free product!

  4. Re:Bad Publicity... on Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines · · Score: 1

    Yes, but given their recent track record, I'm betting any money they'll do it again for quite a while. Besides, that version of flash completely messes up webkit if you are using qt4.6 (current in most distros) forcing either a non-package-manager upgrade to 4.7 (not easy on some distros) or not using the new flash.

  5. Re:What the? on Stuxnet Worm Infected Industrial Control Systems · · Score: 1

    From what I could tell, all the employees folders were on the same share, just separate folders in the "employees/" folder. As for 777 that would affect ALL methods of access (except possibly FTP which has an additional layer of permissions).

  6. Re:*Yawn* Local Root Exploit on Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines · · Score: 1

    Actually, lots of (good) hosts offer ssh access with limited shells (file management and the ability to reload some settings, etc).

  7. Re:Bad Publicity... on Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm pretty sure more than 10 people know about and more than 3 people use flash. As much as I hate flash, until we DO get rid of it, it is pretty much required if you want to watch more a dozen videos online. Oh yeah, did I mention thunderbird's lightning extension. I went for about 6 months before I could get that to work!

    I've been running 64 bit on my machine for years, but there are still some developers that simply don't realise how many of us do.

  8. Re:virus scanner on Linux Kernel Exploit Busily Rooting 64-Bit Machines · · Score: 1

    Leaving a backdoor does not necessarily imply a rootkit. A rootkit hides itself in the underlying levels of the OS (kernel, drivers, API rewrites, etc). Leaving a backdoor could be as simple as creating a user with admin privileges and a pre-defined username/password for easy future access.

    I have not read the article yet, so it could be that it *is* a rootkit, I'm just stating that you can't reach that conclusion from the summary.

  9. Re:And now... on DDoS From 4chan Hits MPAA and Anti-Piracy Website · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know proxies work differently, but I just pictured the MPAA server admins reading the logs and going "OMFG the attacks are all coming from 10.10.0.0/16 and 192.168.1.0/24. We are being attacked from within!!!!"

  10. Re:OMFG on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 1

    Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5800 @ 2.00GHz (2048KB cache)
    nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9600M GT] (1GB memory I believe)

    Do note however that I have NEVER gotten near that performance even at 480 resolution.

  11. Re:Why can't there be a fun Worm that gave free ca on Stuxnet Worm Infected Industrial Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Well, they're just thinking of the children. Imagine if children suddenly had access to violent movies on channels their parents didn't think they needed to block!

    Ok, I'm just going to stop baiting the trolls now :P

  12. Re:What the? on Stuxnet Worm Infected Industrial Control Systems · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of older (2000?) windows file servers. We had one at a workplace I was at where all the employees had network folders for their work and a few shared ones for moving stuff between departments. It was understood that nobody could access other people folders (especially upper management) and it was true (we double-clicked a managers folder by accident once and got the permission denied folder). The really strange part though was that I used a different file manager (explorer-xp) and one of the other guys like it, so I gave him a copy (freeware). He started using that and once again accidentally double-clicked the manager's folder and BOOM he was in! As far as we coudl tell, this file manager gave us 100% permissions on the ENTIRE file server, including out-of-building upper management. Our only guess is that the security is enforced on the client side (windows explorer) and the server simply expects the client to check the permissions itself.

    Needless to say, I've never trusted microsoft security ever since :P

  13. Re:Wow on Stuxnet Worm Infected Industrial Control Systems · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What is the point of a password if it's written in the owners manual of every person that has ever worked on a similar machine? At that point, you may as well call the communications API a "password".

  14. OMFG on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 3, Informative

    God I love Arch Linux
    yaourt -S flashplugin-prerelease

    I have never had fullscreen youtube even usable at 480 before, now I can run it fullscreen at 1080p and the controls are perfectly smooth and only using 70% CPU!!!

    I never though this day would come. *sniff*

  15. Re:Reading comprehension is important! on Adobe Releases New 64-Bit Flash Plugin For Linux · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, because giving no explanation for pulling it, then closing and locking all 64bit linux related threads really inspires a lot of trust in their users...

  16. Re:RTFA. SRSLY. on Study Shows Testosterone is Bad For High-Stakes Decisions · · Score: 1

    Don't worry about it, I don't think sociopaths spend much time on slashdot anyways.

  17. Poor ray tracing on Wolfenstein Gets Ray Traced · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Their ray tracer has a few issues.
    -The player does not appear in the scope reflection (but his shadow does).
    -The people's shadows are cast in a different direction than the car's.

  18. 50 years AFTER YOU DIE! If you wrote it in 2010 at age 30, then died in 2060 (age 80) the copyright would be valid until 2210. That's 100 years of copyright.

  19. Re:Previous condition on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    I'm actually pretty sure it has to do with this whole "we must dissenfect EVERYTHING" bull that lysol and others have been pushing on the everyone. That explains immune systems though. Strangely enough, allergies are actually and OVERreactive immune system that takes extreme unwarranted measures against common chemicals.

  20. Re:Previous condition on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    First of all, please give an example of a disease/vaccine that matches your math formula. Second of all, herd immunication will scew those numbers significantly unless you are able to take readings of un-vaccinated deaths in very large populations with zero immunization.

  21. Re:This works well with a previous story on GE Closes Last US Light Bulb Factory · · Score: 1

    What do ideas have to do with patents these days?

  22. Re:Previous condition on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 1

    What "1"? What "n"?

  23. Re:Previous condition on Family To Receive $1.5M+ In Vaccine-Autism Award · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First of all, the number of people who get sick from a vaccine even closely to the degree they would have with the disease it is so unbelievably small it's not even worth considering.

    Second of all, you are completely ignoring the social side of this. If nobody gets vaccinated, some people will get sick. Without vaccines the disease spreads quickly and eventually (it doesn't take long) a large majority of the population starts getting sick. With vaccines however, the disease is not able to survive further than a few victims and eventually (5 years or so) if nearly everyone is vaccinated, the disease DIES.

    This is exactly what they did to smallpox in North America. They vaccinated so many people (pretty much everyone over 30-40 has the scar from it) that the disease is almost unheard of in North America. In fact, if it's so much as suspected at a hospital, the entire place is put into lockdown.

    1 person out of 5000 getting sick from a vaccine (generously bad number) is nothing compared to what happens when people don't get vaccinated and the disease hits everyone. Remember, if you don't get vaccinated for something, the main reason is probably that most people around you DID. So stop being selfish and help SOLVE the problem!

  24. Re:It's the OS, stupid on The Effect of Snake Oil Security · · Score: 1

    As someone who has written linux applications from python scripts to QT applications to low-level socket programmer, no, there is very LITTLE difference between linux distros unless you want to use their package manager. How many windows viruses do you find listed in "Add/Remove Applications"? In fact, the networking (most complex part of any virus/trjan) is so standard accross distros, an application written for ubuntu will easily run on FreeBSD and the only part that needs to be customized is the final package layout (installer).

  25. Re:It's the OS, stupid on The Effect of Snake Oil Security · · Score: 1

    The execution bit was not designed to prevent applications from being "able" to execute them, they were to prevent users from accidentally executing something that they did not expect to be an executable (naked_girls.jpg.exe). When a user downloads something they expect to be opened by an application (image viewer, adobe acrobat, etc) without realising they have been duped into downloading an executable, unix will either open it in a text editor (scripts) or present an error (binary executable). Windows on the other hand will simply present a password prompt (OK button in vista) and the "click it till it goes away" crowd will happily type in their password without so much as a pause. THAT is why executable bits should never to applied to downloaded files.